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Jesus Christ
The morality of US actions can be debated about but 1k plus people died on 9/11 in a terrorist which obviously led to tensions running high. On the other hand, the Chinese government saw a peaceful protest and immediately mobilized its army on its own people.
As far as I'm aware the leader was alone in that opinion. Not only did the army use live ammunition, they used a kind that caused maximum damage. Completely unjustified - and on student protestors - not terrorists.
The Army DID attack the protestors.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of those actions by the army. Guess that gives me a different view of the incident...
That view being wrong, yes.
Try not to argue topics you don't know anything about.
Tht wasn't quite nice on your part, but still thank you.
Lying about the Tiananmen Square Massacre isn't nice, either.
It's perfectly nice to say things I believe to be true and learn that they aren't, why wouldn't it be.
Truth doesn't give a shit about your belief. You were wrong, that's it.
So you think it's morally wrong to be wrong? That's an interesting perspective. It's usually taken for granted that people are free to believe anything (religion, etc.). How would you tackle that if you had a choice?
Why are you even debating this? You make a claim, it was false, that's it.
Yes, that's it.
Could have been it before that comment, but you insisted. We have had a fruitful exchange, I learned something, don't spoil it with meaningless pride. Hope you make lots of new friends here!
Dude why are you being such an arse about it? The other guy made a mistake, was corrected, and admitted it. Thereβs no need to carry on like a dick.
fair enough
They weren't radical communist protestors. They were students demanding more democracy and transparency from the government.
also typical lemmy.ml behaviour
If you can't find a source, then it's probably bs
(All the links below are NSFW, by the way.)
Just a random patch of red on the ground, nothing to see here!
This is a muzzle flare of peace!
Just a coincidental head injury.
Random mass casualty event in a Beijing hospital from the same day at the same time.
A smear of red paint on the ground, of course.
This guys just feeling tired, I guess
Saying the TSM didnβt happen because everyone was killed in the streets next to the square is as disinformative as saying the Holocaust was exaggerated because most of the killing took place in countries outside of Germany.
Goodness, look at this Gish Gallop, over 15 different links!
For all our sakes, can you narrow it down to your best 3? No one can be bothered going through 15 different sources, especially when most of them are twitter and youtube links.
Ahhh~ I see you're using the Gish Gallop technique, 15 different links, wow!
For those unawares, the Gish Gallop is when you bombard your opponent with claim after claim, using whatever source agrees with you.
like come on dude, lmao. most of these sources are from Chinese officials.
Like seriously, this account is called the Shanghai Panda. Do you expect them to be truthful when their pinned tweet is calling the CCP democratic and calling Western nations undemocratic?
Links to a logical fallacy Wikipedia article and doesn't respond to a single point, Liberals are not sending their best!
They're sharing videos and pictures from people who were at the protests, you should be engaging with the content that the account posted, not with the account's username.